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The Defectors

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 13:42

Defecting from WW to SW?

Excited by the possibility of eating shedloads of carbs but worried about the reduction in your Wine intake?

Confused about the difference in the diets?

Contemplating changing over?

Compulsive question asker?

Don't ask me, I haven't got a clue.

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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 13:56
marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 13:57

Carb intake increase excites me to the point of foamery but wine intake decrease makes me cry.

My friend who has been very successful on SW doesn't care much for a drink, the bloody weirdo.

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 14:06

Oooh-weeeee!

You can have wine though. But only, like, one glass or something fucking pathetic like that. Hang on, I'll go and look at the syns (SYNS what the? FFS)

Right, so you can have between 5-10 syns per day and:

White/Red wine (175 mls) = 6 syns
250mls = 8 syns

I have heard tell that you can roll over your syns daily and then gt fucking bladdered on a friday night, but whether that is true or not is another matter.

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 14:07
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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 14:11

Shirl, this thread will be just me and you, you know?

The wine thing distresses me greatly. At least on WW, my 49 extra PPs per week afford me 2 and a bit bottles of wine.

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 14:21

Yes. If it is just me and you then at least we won't have people offering each other virtual bum fingering or whatever. (actually that sounds ok, it's the virtual biscuits I can't bear)

See, I think that 49 weekly points is BAD. Because what I do is think "oh right, bottle of wine is 22 points or whatever, I can have two of them and maybe a bag of crisps and...." before I know it I've blown it again

I think I need to be horrifically strict on myself. I've been alright the last couple of days. Not hungry at all and not craving crisps and bread. I crave bread something awful on WW.

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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 14:29

My weigh-in is on a saturday and I have used my 49 extra PPs by.... saturday night :(

I used 35 of them on the new Calabrese pizza in Pizza Express last saturday. It tatsted fucking good though.

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 14:38

Them leggarrrrararara pizza's are nice though from Pizza Express and loads a few less points.

Are you still losing on the WW? See, I am so fucking bored of it. BORED BORED BORED BORED. an egg - 3 PP, PISS OFF that I just started sabotaging myself really badly. Sad

I am such a fickle princess.

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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 14:48

I lost 2ibs last week but that was a first since the festive period of yule. I am bored too. I've just shoved half a bag of pretzels into my greedy gob. If I were on SW, I would have had a huge bowl of pasta for lunch and been full until dinner time.

Also, this "rounding up" of pps is grossly unjust. A crumpet = 2 pp so 2X crumpets = 4pps, right? WRONG, 2 crumpets = 5 pps. What the blinking fuck?

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 15:21

Grossly unjust hahahaha!

Well I had a bowl of porridge and a banana for breakfast - I fuckinghate porridge.

And for lunch I had a massive jacket potato and cottage cheese and those notcrab sticks and I'm not remotely starving.

Seriously, that carameilised onion and mushroom WW lasagne I had was worse than anything I have ever eaten. (and I've eaten your mum)

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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 15:26

How many points was your massive potato?

Yeah, the new recipe book made me boak. Perhaps that is the point? You lose weight that way.

marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 15:26

LOL at eaten your mum. You daft twat.

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 16:27

Er if I were doing WW it would have been about 15 points. No lie. The thing was gigantic.

HeeYUGE.

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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 17:09

It makes me sad :(

Old plan. Jacket potato and tuna - 6 and half points

This plan - Jacket potato with tuna - all of your points for a bastard day.

Why not have some salad instead with a teaspoon of cous cous as a token carb?

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 17:47

Come over to SW then. Seriously. I think you can even do it just off the magazine.

F WW. Eff them in the a.

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marmaladetwatkins · 30/03/2011 18:01

I think I might come, beyotch. My thighs are looking like a condom filled with sausagemeat.

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 18:23

I have a gunt.

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weigheyhey · 30/03/2011 21:03

hello ladies- i am not a defector, but i did notice your thread and I was on it! Just want to say this looks like fun may I join you and

Dont do yourself out of syns-it's between 5-15 a day but they say aim for ten in the groups.

What are you following to do it? Just the magazine from this month? Cos if you are you may be missing out on the bestest of all plans which is extra easy-that jacketpot and tuna is no issue on that one-only if youre doing red and green days

f'kin hell they should gimme a job as a consultant!

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ShirleyKnot · 30/03/2011 21:48

Hello weighhey!

I've joined the online thingy. Got a lot of learning to do, it's weird when you're coming from one diet to another one, especially when the rules are so different.

Now. Can you answer me this? Can marmalade and I save up our sins and get drunk on wine every Friday night and talk shit to each other? Is this allowed?

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weigheyhey · 30/03/2011 22:25

yup-thats what flexi syns are for :)

HowToLookGoodGlaikit · 31/03/2011 07:40

You shouldnt use flexi-syns every week, they are only for special occasions. You can try saiving your syns and using them once a week, and see how it affects your loss. Some can do it fine, a small minority cant get away with it. Flexi-syns is where you give yourself a set amount of "extra" syns to use on a special occasion like a birthday party/wedding.

weigheyhey · 31/03/2011 07:43

Howto is quite right, but I wasn't going to be the one to drag down your mood. If youre serious about weightloss you cant drink that much.

I miss drinking, I would get drunk most fridays and drink at least 2 or 3 glasses on wine almost ever evening, so I know how tough it is. But I am high on weightloss success at the moment so it's worth it.

marmaladetwatkins · 31/03/2011 09:32

"I have a gunt."

I disagree about the not drinking much and weightloss. I lost 3 stone on WW and never once had to cut out my wine! I refuse to say goodbye to my old pal Vino.

How often can you use flexi-syns then? For example, this month I have a 60th on saturday then Mother's Day, then DH's birthday. I couldn't use flexi-syns for all of those, could I?

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ShirleyKnot · 31/03/2011 09:47

Look, you massive lush, the way I see it is thus:

  1. No drinking at all during the working week. This is hard, obviously, because it means that you have to find other things to do, such as having a nice bath (fucking hell) or doing your nails (fucking hell) but the upside of this is no more waking up at 2 in the morning, slumped at the computer desk with a flyer for a local restaurant stuck to your face. This might not have happened. It did

  2. Therefore you will get well wankered on less wine. OR swap to vodka.

  3. Sack off starting the diet until after all the fun stuff this weekend.

  4. Shut up.

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ShirleyKnot · 31/03/2011 09:48
  1. should say - you will get more drunk on a Friday or a Saturday or whatever ONE day you pick to have alcomohol. And also, stop having a life for a while, like me.
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